Stanley Hawley 1867-1916

[giles.enders]

Stanley Harry Hawley  Born Ilkeston, Derbyshire  17.5.1867  Died Ilkeston  13.6.1916

Stanley was the youngest of four children¹. He remained unmarried. He received most of his musical training at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He became a composer, pianist and organist and held a number of administrative posts including Hon. Secretary of the Royal Philharmonic Society.  Perhaps the least fashionable genre of classical music during the last hundred years are melodramas and recitations with musical accompaniment.  Hawley was quite prolific in composing these and was clearly successful. Some of the compositions were orchestrated as well as being for solo piano. Given a good actor, many of these are worth reviving as part of a chamber concert.  There are recordings of some of his works.

Piano

L'ancien Regime  gavotte  pub. by R Cocks & Co  1895
'Colinette'  mazurka   pub. by R Cocks & Co
Dance Sketch No.1   pub. by Novello  1912
Dance Sketch No.2   pub. by Carper  1915
'Quinlan'   pub. by Bosworth  & Co


Recitation Music  all published by Bosworth & Co

The Bells  words by Edgar Allan Poe   
Lorraine, Lorraine, Lourree.  words by Charles Kingsley 
Soul Music   words by George Whyte-Melville 
The Story of the faithful soul  words by Adelaide Proctor   
Riding through the broom  words by George Whyte-Melville 
Curfew must not ring to-night  words by Ross Hartwick Thorpe 
The Raven  words by Edgar Allan Poe 
Young Lochinvar  words by Sir Walter Scott
A Ballad of Hell  words by John Davidson   
What my lover said  words by Horace Greenly   pub. by Bosworth & Co also R Cocks & Co 
The Legend Beautiful  words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   
The Thin red line  words by Alice C. MacDonell
In the Round Tower at Jhansi  words by Christina Rossetti 
Lenore  words by Edgar Allan Poe 
Fair Helen  words- traditional
One of us two
The Birth of the Opal  words by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
The Death Potion  words by Lizette Woodworth Reese
The Legend of the east window  words by Hubert Cutler 
Te Deum laudamus  words by Hubert Cutler   
A Country Idyll  words by Hubert Cutler 
The Mission of Judas
Abou Ben Adham 
The Song of the Shirt  words by Thomas Hood

Love Lyrics - recitations

Phillida  flouts me  - scored for strings
Love is a sickness
Why so pale?   - scored for strings
Cupid and Campaspe
The Constant Lover
Phillida and Corydon
Shepherd, what is love
My heart and thine   - scored for strings
Meet we no angels
Cupid's Arrows
The Cheat of Cupid
Young Colin
The Despairing Lover
Fie, shepherd, fie!
I smile at love
Love and hope
Yes, I'm in love

Dramatic Poems all published by Novello & Co

The Necklace of Tears
The Black Heart
The Wooing of the mist
The Sisters
Magdalen
The Orphan
The Spinning Song
The Water Nymph and the Boy
The White Moth

Song for voice and piano

Tell him, blackbird
A song of farewells
Violets
Never good-bye  words by W E Henley   pub. by Novello & Co
True Love words by Joshua Sylvester   pub. by Bosworth & Co
Love is never out of season  words by Mary Maclagan   pub. by Bosworth & Co
With the tide  words by Eleanor Foster
If an angel
Two Things
Absence
Longing
Remembrance
Alone
The Fishing boat
The coming of the King
A Widow bird
I dreamed
Spring Song
Sleeping
If love be love
Dorothy Doone  words by E Nesbit   pub. by R Cocks & Co
Me and she  words by E Bisland
Friend of my infinate dreams 
My true love words by Sir Phillip Sidney

Choir and organ

Anthem - Withdraw not though thy mercy   pub. by G Schirmer

1.
Edwin Flint Hawley  1853-1933
Mary Ann Hawley  1858-1938
Florence Hawley  1864- ?
Stanley Harry Hawley  1867-1916

He left an estate valued at £8.477

[Gareth Vaughan]

I'm rather fond of the "music hall" recitations with music. Some can be highly effective. I use to perform a few as part of my one-man show years ago. Unfortunately, I never performed any of Hawley's. I must explore him.

[giles.enders]

I have been contacted by an established pianist who looked at some of Hawley's works with the thought one might be useful for a charity concert.  His view was that they were very insipid.  I have since borrowed three of these works and though the subject matter is promising the music is very milk and water and unenspiring. I understand from both sources that Hawley was very well liked and did a good job with The Royal Philharmonic Society.